I am currently new to exchange 07 and Ad and I am trying to find some reference material on how to forward an email to multiple recipients.

What I am trying to do is basically create an emergency@mydomain.com email account (or does it have to be a distribution group) upon which if any mail is recieved it will then forward it out to multiple technicans phones as an sms message. But I am a little lost on how to forward to multiple external email accounts.

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Step 1: create mail contacts. I suggest that you make a separate AD organizational unit so as to keep the object segregated; also allow you to make dynamic DL based on OU membership. Just the way I do it - there are other methods.

Step 2: create a DL and add the contacts to it. Make sure that the DL has a valid email address. You can test this by only adding yourself to the DL, and then send an email to it from both internal and external sources. DL's can also be restricted from receiving email from outside the domain - if you need the DL to be able to receive external mail, make sure that the tick box is not checked.

Keep in mind that if you use a regular DL (non-dynamic) you can add other groups to it - it all depends on your needs.

I think I have tried those steps previously however they did not work. What I have done in about this order is:

In Exchange Management.

Create the mailbox: emergency@mydomain.com Created the contact => has my tmobile cell number 408xxxx@tmomail.net Created the DL => emergencypage and then Added the my contact as a member of the emergencypage list.